After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

You don't have to be the most educated or the most experienced to start the journey, but the most willing to out-learn and out-work everyone around you.

Surrender to love to feel the joy of life.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Life is a series of dogs.

I am a very hopeful person.

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?